CoMo No. 7: Finland (November, 2022)

[sally]

[niminy-piminy]

HYPPY / THE JUMP (Eino Ruutsalo, 1965) #CoMoFinland

https://youtu.be/u_Z0CvGPu64

[Mauries]

Lasso (Salla Tykkä, 2000, 4')
very poor quality though...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvoLE7B7v4Y

[sally]

i ♥ finland

& i forgot to post the sentiment that has been accompanying me for oh, at least the last 10 years since i first saw it



i also appreciate this sentiment




.............anyway como is underway! (hello mauries!)


aatamin puvussa ja vähän eevankin / in adam's dress and a bit in eve's too - jaakko korhonen (1931) #CoMoFinland

watch here with english subs: https://elonet.finna.fi/Record/kavi.elo ... 1?imgid=16

[greennui]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRbrzDZBlqg

[sally]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh he's adorable!!!! that smile!!

[sally]

https://twitter.com/AdamCSharp/status/1 ... opMvF-L3Mg

[niminy-piminy]

THE COUNTRY DOCTOR (Katariina Lillqvist, 1995) #CoMoFinland

Katariina Lillqvist is a Finnish director and screenwriter, who has for a long time been living and working in the Czech Republic. The local animation has enchanted her to the point that she decided to study and, in the end, even partially move to the Czech Republic.

A deeply touching surreal tale of people distressed by war. The narrative spiced with grotesque details, and the hypnotically oppressive atmosphere are as in a nightmare, but images of real European terrors are lurking in the background.

An animation based on a short story by Franz Kafka

https://vimeo.com/151124856

[sally]

kreivi / the count - peter von bagh (1971) #CoMoFinland

Pertti Ylermi Lindgren (b. 1936) was engaged to 76 women, married none, but took the money of all. Lindgren is the real thing, as far as swindlers go. Peter von Bagh asked him to play himself in a film that would reconstruct some of his greatest moments

[niminy-piminy]

If 6 was 9 (Eija-Liisa Ahtila, 1997, 10m) #CoMoFinland

Me/We (Eija-Liisa Ahtila, 1993, 2m) #CoMoFinland
Okay (Eija-Liisa Ahtila, 1993, 2m) #CoMoFinland
Gray (Eija-Liisa Ahtila, 1993, 2m) #CoMoFinland

Today (Eija-Liisa Ahtila, 1997, 10m) #CoMoFinland

[sally]

back to the USSR - takaisin ryssiin - jari halonen (1992) #CoMoFinland

Reima Elo, a truly devouted communist with an attitude of full blown and pissed off left wing anarchist trying to reignite the long lost flame of USSR with the help of a Vampire Lenin

[sally]

keinolumikylä / wonder world of ice - ilkka rautio (2014) #CoMoFinland

is it even classed as a finnish film if it doesn't have arse in it?

(guess documentaries might be an exception)

[greennui]

The Callbird (Roland af Hällström,1946) - More Finnish bums...

[sally]

that's the spirit! ♥

[niminy-piminy]

THE MAIDEN AND THE SOLDIER (Katariina Lillqvist, 1995) #CoMoFinland

inspired by the poem The Legend of the Dead Soldier by Bertolt Brecht

Silver Bear from Berlinale 1996

BIRDS IN THE EARTH (Marja Helander, 2018) #CoMoFinland

a short film based on dance. The main characters are two young Sámi ballet students; Birit and Katja Haarla. The movie tells a bit melancholic story through their dance performances. At the same time it examines the deeper questions of the ownership of Sámi land.

[niminy-piminy]

TAIGA (Leena Lehti, 2021) #CoMoFinland

“Taiga” is an elegy to boreal forest. In south Finland taiga is already started to change to temperate forest.
This tactile film is made on 16mm film without camera. It combines hand scratched animation with real tiny plants and moss collected in subarctic region in Finland.

https://vimeo.com/513538400

HANASAARI A (Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen, 2009) #CoMoFinland

Hanasaari A is an experimental documentary about the changing cityscape of Helsinki and the final moments of a coal-fired power plant. The old industrial milieu is being destroyed to make space for modern housing units. The film is a combination of animation, live action cinematography, and graphic elements. It is based on 500 000 photographs taken during the final two years of the existence of the power plant.

https://youtu.be/CrMBWSMwnI0

[Curtis, baby]

finland?? finland has the firest cinema/population, i will get in on this

[sally]

yay curtis

sysmäläinen / the man from sysmä - valentin vaala (1938) #CoMoFinland

[Mario Gaborovic]

I'll just drop two of my favorite Suomi flicks here, watch if you want or look around for better!

Hot Cat (1968) and The Punk Syndrome (2012)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AOEUWcMDt0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8a9aYOn8nw

[niminy-piminy]

GREEN GOLD (Valentin Vaala, 1939) #CoMoFinland

[niminy-piminy]

CIRCLE (Minna Parkkinen, 2010) #CoMoFinland → https://www.av-arkki.fi/works/circle/
EXACTLY (Sami Van Ingen, 2008) #CoMoFinland → https://lightcone.org/en/film-5528-exactly
+PLUS -MINUS (Eino Ruutsalo, 1967) #CoMoFinland ↓
https://youtu.be/ny7oKtKgb7c

[sally]

uralin perhonen / the butterfly from ural - katariina lillqvist (2008) #CoMoFinland

[rischka]

gonna watch some akis today xD

[sally]

sotapolulla / on the warpath - teuvo pakkala (1922) #CoMoFinland

i don't know what the fuck was going on, there's no subtitles, and it must be missing footage or some out of sync, otherwise it's some jaunty tale of madcap semi-retarded little girl falling for and helping paedophile guerrilla civil war leader, whose adult woman shoots herself for him in front of his eyes, liberally interspersed with serious piles of war dead.

and no ass.

[niminy-piminy]

rewatches...
KIDS MOVIE (Jan Ijäs, 2005) #CoMoFinland

Kids learning how to fly.

DANCING NAZI SKINHEADS (Jan Ijäs, 2005) #CoMoFinland

Dancing Nazi Skinheads perform three different dances: tap-dance, disco-dance and folk-dance.

https://vimeo.com/224478486
https://vimeo.com/224479288

[niminy-piminy]

WAKE UP, HELSINKI! (Valentin Vaala, 1939) #CoMoFinland


REMEMBRANCE - A SMALL MOVIE ABOUT OULU IN THE 1950s (Peter von Bagh, 2013) #CoMoFinland


the essence of "finnishness"...



and CoMo's motto...

[greennui]

I found Callbird here btw, keep forgetting about this site, sometimes really rare stuff pops up.

http://rarefilmm.com/2022/06/houkutuslintu-1946/

A few more Finish films there as well

http://rarefilmm.com/tag/finland/

[rischka]

i hired a contract killer - crossover from noirvember!

https://twitter.com/rbgscfz/status/1592 ... tIzv1OIlHg

i haven't watched one in so long i'll watch man without a past too

[Lencho of the Apes]

Kissatone Virne/Catless Grin - Jasper Late, 2017.

Amazing what this guy could do with a couple of IPhones and a couple hundred Euros. That's not much of a recommendation, but the same movie with a budget of hundreds of thousands wouldn't necessarily be any better. And I was only the 2nd person on LB to log this, which always tickles me...

Also I really liked the way he coded glitches into his visual field to represent the central character's mental/emotional breakdown.

On youtube, along with Etsinassa/Searching For You which is an okay college-student romcom that avoids all the fumbly clumsiness of mumblecore while not doing anything particularly different from that. Four views on LB, now five.

[rischka]

the man without a past (aki 2002) very sweet, reminds me a lot of shadows in paradise. i'm a sucker for amnesia movies. once again, great soundtrack